The highlights shown in the dorsal fin are pale iridescent blue, tipped with
red. The fin also has an interesting spot. Body color, olive, overlaid with
rapidly changing dark patterns.

The generic name Tilapia is usually associated with mouth-breeding Cichlids.
As T. sparrmanii are not mouthbreeders,we again point out that breeding habits
have little, if anything, to do with scientific classification.

They breed like other large Cichlids, such as A portalegrensis, but
are more temperamental as to fighting and also as to eating their young.
Easily spawned, and may turn out very large families or none at all. They
are safest kept either singly or with large numbers of their own kind. Not
suited to a community tank.